Internet in India : Usage, Policies and Digital India
India is one among the developing nations of the world producing substantial GDP. Most of the GDP coming from service sector contributing to 57% of GDP. Telecommunication is one of them, being the second largest telecommunication service in this world, it has its way in the country. Let's consider some basic statistical information before I go into the topic. There are 46.2 crore (462 million) internet users in India. Among them the number of people who are connected to broadband are 14 crore (140 million) people and in that, wired subscribers are 1 crore (10 million) and wireless through telephones are 12 crore (120 milllion) people and only 12.6% of the Indian individuals are accessing internet, of coarse this is taken considering whole population and only 9.5% of the households are connected to internet.
If Indian, we all know about the Digital India that is been launched in India in 2015, "is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology". Well, looking at the above statistics, you will have a idea of how many households are connected to internet through optical fiber. BSNL, a public telecom service, which is the provider of largest home network and telephone connections in India is still running its home broadband services on telephone wires/dial up connection or even though connected through optical fiber, the service provided is so poor that literally the consumer has to call the BSNL service more than to anybody he know but still most of the Indian home networks are connected through BSNL cause there is no alternative services available at most of the places in the country. They have to stick with BSNL. The rate of people who leaves this network is far more greater than the number of people who comes into this connection, still, we find BSNL doing very less or nill to attract costumers and we can find 100% customer dissatisfaction at any place in the country using BSNL service.
The policies in India are well directed by TRAI (Telecom regulatory Authority of India) which takes the decision on how telecom service to be operated in India. In this 20th century, after the development of well regulated administration and administrative policies, the 2G spectrum scam that took place in 2011 is the proof for its failure. The policy decision it took to enhance the telecom service penetration in the country is very less consider the telecom services available in India till 2014. As a central unit for policies and decision making, Indians can feel nothing of what it is actually doing. Some of the policies that it implemented since the 2007 Mumbai attack shows it's incompetence to handle the telecom regulation in Democratic India. The policy decisions that were taken by TRAI are almost non-democratic with Internet censorship when it doesn't have enough capability or competence to do that. The result is so worse that it started blocking sites randomly which includes FTTP sites, advertising sites, File hosting sites, torrents and much more which is making internet experience more horrible. The thing is, in spite of its incompetence, it is blocking more sites on internet than any other secular democratic country. It is like a madman's rampage on internet. A genuine internet user in India have to feel sick about it. How it is doing is through random fire shots on internet sites. The policy of banning porn sites in India, well, I am favorable to that, but what it has achieved? revulsion from public. Considering the number of users of internet in India, banned internet sites for the security reasons have very little impact on India. Whether it is due to DMCA or for counter terrorism, when you could see the list of banned sites in India, you won't find any significant reason for their blockage cause most of these terrorist recruitment things, insurgence inciting and few other threats are been seeping into the people through popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and instant messengers and this shows the inefficiency and working capability of TRAI. The limitation on the text messages we send per day and the lift on it's ban is the significant idiocy of TRAI. How, if you ask, we are in the time through which we can send a million messages to anybody we want per day. Why haven't they lifted the ban in regular text message usage? By this we can understand the efficiency of working of TRAI.
Capitalistic regime of TRAI can be well described through the auction of 2G and 3G spectrum in India which gave the private telecom companies to raise the telecom service price as much as they want. The price structure created now on spectrum usage by an individual is no way decided by competition to provide best service, but on the profits extortion from the citizens when they had chance. The inefficiency of the public telecom sector BSNL and MTNL is a well planned action to take it out from competition and increase the private ownership and governance of Telecommunication in India, not for providing the better service but to extort money from consumers. When minimum broadband speed is set to 512 Kbps and there are only 14 crore prople are accessing broadband in India, what is the reason for the advent of 4G in India when proper 3G connection which could able to provide minimum speed of 2mbps couldn't able to seep into the corners of the country. What does it represent? When you couldn't have a whole meal to everybody, is it proper to think about royal meal to a single person? Where is the regulation in there? Isn't it a plan to make people pay for some phony propaganda? let me explain how telecommunication in India cheating with it's phony advertisements.
Let's consider you got a 3G connection on you mobile and recharged for internet for 28 days which amounts to 250/- for 1GB data. Considering the speed of 2mbps which will load the page faster and loads high quality images on Facebook and streams YouTube and Instagram videos in high quality and not to forget, video chatting which was prevalent now a days? how long do you think it will last? At least 10 days or probably 15 days at most and they still keep on increasing the price for the internet data usage. In addition to that, increase in mobile tariffs makes us think, mobile phones are only for few middle class, upper middle class and rich. They made, using a mobile phone properly is a luxury. That is why we find, most of the phones the Indians use are only for receiving calls, not to dial.
The story doesn't just stop there. Considering the number of users in India accessing the internet for proper cause excluding the use of social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Whats App etc is the cult created solely by TRAI to create market in India through telecommunication which hindered the proper educational use of Internet. Including those social networking sites, Indians searching for sites to download movies and dramas and by some so called phony intelligent people who searches for online questions and preparation materials just before examinations which makes them complete DORKS in working profession. If we start searching for users beyond this, all the internet users in the world or in India have one common place they visit, Pornographic sites or live chatting sites. It will make us sick to consider what TRAI is making its citizens to do. Through this we can say that India is the largest producer of third grade people/ workers in this world. THIRD GRADE PEOPLE are who doesn't have competence to do a task given to him in the best possible way. We find most people in city and in Indian offices that includes private firms as lazy, lethargic, dork and incompetent. This is the collective effort of Indian governance in all sectors in molding its citizens. Where ever we go, we find extortion.
What internet brought to India is comprehensively 'nothing'. It mostly helped people who attends competitive examinations in giving updates information, beyond that, the pain we used to take walking to the offices to pay bills are replaced by the pain we should take to earn to pay the internet bills.
The latest action to increase the profits by increasing mobile tariffs can be understood through this broadband tariff structure of BSNL TataDocomo, they have started to increase the wired broadband 'Unlimited plan' charges in order to cope up with the mobile internet charges. The reason for this is, the people who couldn't able to afford mobile internet are taking up wired unlimited plans with less cost and reasonably high speeds >512 kbps in India and connecting their mobile phones through WiFi modems. Please be aware, that only less than two crore (two million) people are doing like this. Considering it as a impediment to the growth of highly profitable mobile network industry, they either reduced the speeds through broadband through a process called FUP. If you have a look at that FUP there will have a mention of "a small number of customers may otherwise use an excessive amount of the network bandwidth and impairs the experience of a large majority". If that is true, how could the servers could able to cope up with high speeds which the users will access at the start of the month till the FUP limit is reached and what they coudn't handle after reaching FUP? Isn't this FUP a bluff for some other incompetent reason which they couldn't tell their customers? If somebody could explain this, please do explain in comment. I would like to know. Along with this, 90% of consumers in India won't get the speed they are paid for due to proper infrastructure unavailability. By keeping these FUPs and increasing they charges, telecommunication industries in India are forcing the people to switch to mobile data which will be highly profitable for them and loss for us who pays too much for the services we get. Now a days, there is a huge sale of smart TVs and data connectors, digital media players like chrome cast. Let's discuss the connection between the Internet and the products sold in India with a relevant example.
Let's consider we bought a smart TV in India. As it is smart, we would like to play/stream media content in it. Since, smart TV starts with HD range, we will play a YouTube video in 480p considering the speed we have been provided with in Internet. We need a constant 1mbps speed at least to play a 480p video without buffering on YouTube. When we are getting broadband with FUP at 10GB (Considering Tata Broadband) for 1000 rupees at 2mbps and post FUP with 512 kbps. How much time will it take to reach 10GB limit to browse smart content on TV? In addition to that we will have smart phones which access the same internet. It won't even stand for 10 days and at 512 kbps, we can't even play 360p video without buffering considering only that TV is connected to that network. What they are expecting us to be a fair user in present generation? We play 300 rupees for 200 channels and we pay 1000 rupees for what? To exhaust the limit soon and switch to mobile phones and computers, having a smart TV?
May be we can never understand what they think. Logically thinking, most of the policies that TRAI introduces seems stupid to common person. They haven't undertaken any policy that would benefit a common internet user in India if we exclude "Minimum speed limit" of 512kpbps in 2016. They want to finish digital India by 2017 but the people who could able to avail that service might still remain under 20% and the telecommunications till continue to exploit the policies of the government and TRAI and extort the consumers. Maladministration in India is spoiling the resources and cheating its citizens. telecommunication sector is prime example for that.
Do comment your views.
If Indian, we all know about the Digital India that is been launched in India in 2015, "is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology". Well, looking at the above statistics, you will have a idea of how many households are connected to internet through optical fiber. BSNL, a public telecom service, which is the provider of largest home network and telephone connections in India is still running its home broadband services on telephone wires/dial up connection or even though connected through optical fiber, the service provided is so poor that literally the consumer has to call the BSNL service more than to anybody he know but still most of the Indian home networks are connected through BSNL cause there is no alternative services available at most of the places in the country. They have to stick with BSNL. The rate of people who leaves this network is far more greater than the number of people who comes into this connection, still, we find BSNL doing very less or nill to attract costumers and we can find 100% customer dissatisfaction at any place in the country using BSNL service.
The policies in India are well directed by TRAI (Telecom regulatory Authority of India) which takes the decision on how telecom service to be operated in India. In this 20th century, after the development of well regulated administration and administrative policies, the 2G spectrum scam that took place in 2011 is the proof for its failure. The policy decision it took to enhance the telecom service penetration in the country is very less consider the telecom services available in India till 2014. As a central unit for policies and decision making, Indians can feel nothing of what it is actually doing. Some of the policies that it implemented since the 2007 Mumbai attack shows it's incompetence to handle the telecom regulation in Democratic India. The policy decisions that were taken by TRAI are almost non-democratic with Internet censorship when it doesn't have enough capability or competence to do that. The result is so worse that it started blocking sites randomly which includes FTTP sites, advertising sites, File hosting sites, torrents and much more which is making internet experience more horrible. The thing is, in spite of its incompetence, it is blocking more sites on internet than any other secular democratic country. It is like a madman's rampage on internet. A genuine internet user in India have to feel sick about it. How it is doing is through random fire shots on internet sites. The policy of banning porn sites in India, well, I am favorable to that, but what it has achieved? revulsion from public. Considering the number of users of internet in India, banned internet sites for the security reasons have very little impact on India. Whether it is due to DMCA or for counter terrorism, when you could see the list of banned sites in India, you won't find any significant reason for their blockage cause most of these terrorist recruitment things, insurgence inciting and few other threats are been seeping into the people through popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and instant messengers and this shows the inefficiency and working capability of TRAI. The limitation on the text messages we send per day and the lift on it's ban is the significant idiocy of TRAI. How, if you ask, we are in the time through which we can send a million messages to anybody we want per day. Why haven't they lifted the ban in regular text message usage? By this we can understand the efficiency of working of TRAI.
Capitalistic regime of TRAI can be well described through the auction of 2G and 3G spectrum in India which gave the private telecom companies to raise the telecom service price as much as they want. The price structure created now on spectrum usage by an individual is no way decided by competition to provide best service, but on the profits extortion from the citizens when they had chance. The inefficiency of the public telecom sector BSNL and MTNL is a well planned action to take it out from competition and increase the private ownership and governance of Telecommunication in India, not for providing the better service but to extort money from consumers. When minimum broadband speed is set to 512 Kbps and there are only 14 crore prople are accessing broadband in India, what is the reason for the advent of 4G in India when proper 3G connection which could able to provide minimum speed of 2mbps couldn't able to seep into the corners of the country. What does it represent? When you couldn't have a whole meal to everybody, is it proper to think about royal meal to a single person? Where is the regulation in there? Isn't it a plan to make people pay for some phony propaganda? let me explain how telecommunication in India cheating with it's phony advertisements.
Let's consider you got a 3G connection on you mobile and recharged for internet for 28 days which amounts to 250/- for 1GB data. Considering the speed of 2mbps which will load the page faster and loads high quality images on Facebook and streams YouTube and Instagram videos in high quality and not to forget, video chatting which was prevalent now a days? how long do you think it will last? At least 10 days or probably 15 days at most and they still keep on increasing the price for the internet data usage. In addition to that, increase in mobile tariffs makes us think, mobile phones are only for few middle class, upper middle class and rich. They made, using a mobile phone properly is a luxury. That is why we find, most of the phones the Indians use are only for receiving calls, not to dial.
The story doesn't just stop there. Considering the number of users in India accessing the internet for proper cause excluding the use of social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Whats App etc is the cult created solely by TRAI to create market in India through telecommunication which hindered the proper educational use of Internet. Including those social networking sites, Indians searching for sites to download movies and dramas and by some so called phony intelligent people who searches for online questions and preparation materials just before examinations which makes them complete DORKS in working profession. If we start searching for users beyond this, all the internet users in the world or in India have one common place they visit, Pornographic sites or live chatting sites. It will make us sick to consider what TRAI is making its citizens to do. Through this we can say that India is the largest producer of third grade people/ workers in this world. THIRD GRADE PEOPLE are who doesn't have competence to do a task given to him in the best possible way. We find most people in city and in Indian offices that includes private firms as lazy, lethargic, dork and incompetent. This is the collective effort of Indian governance in all sectors in molding its citizens. Where ever we go, we find extortion.
What internet brought to India is comprehensively 'nothing'. It mostly helped people who attends competitive examinations in giving updates information, beyond that, the pain we used to take walking to the offices to pay bills are replaced by the pain we should take to earn to pay the internet bills.
The latest action to increase the profits by increasing mobile tariffs can be understood through this broadband tariff structure of BSNL TataDocomo, they have started to increase the wired broadband 'Unlimited plan' charges in order to cope up with the mobile internet charges. The reason for this is, the people who couldn't able to afford mobile internet are taking up wired unlimited plans with less cost and reasonably high speeds >512 kbps in India and connecting their mobile phones through WiFi modems. Please be aware, that only less than two crore (two million) people are doing like this. Considering it as a impediment to the growth of highly profitable mobile network industry, they either reduced the speeds through broadband through a process called FUP. If you have a look at that FUP there will have a mention of "a small number of customers may otherwise use an excessive amount of the network bandwidth and impairs the experience of a large majority". If that is true, how could the servers could able to cope up with high speeds which the users will access at the start of the month till the FUP limit is reached and what they coudn't handle after reaching FUP? Isn't this FUP a bluff for some other incompetent reason which they couldn't tell their customers? If somebody could explain this, please do explain in comment. I would like to know. Along with this, 90% of consumers in India won't get the speed they are paid for due to proper infrastructure unavailability. By keeping these FUPs and increasing they charges, telecommunication industries in India are forcing the people to switch to mobile data which will be highly profitable for them and loss for us who pays too much for the services we get. Now a days, there is a huge sale of smart TVs and data connectors, digital media players like chrome cast. Let's discuss the connection between the Internet and the products sold in India with a relevant example.
Let's consider we bought a smart TV in India. As it is smart, we would like to play/stream media content in it. Since, smart TV starts with HD range, we will play a YouTube video in 480p considering the speed we have been provided with in Internet. We need a constant 1mbps speed at least to play a 480p video without buffering on YouTube. When we are getting broadband with FUP at 10GB (Considering Tata Broadband) for 1000 rupees at 2mbps and post FUP with 512 kbps. How much time will it take to reach 10GB limit to browse smart content on TV? In addition to that we will have smart phones which access the same internet. It won't even stand for 10 days and at 512 kbps, we can't even play 360p video without buffering considering only that TV is connected to that network. What they are expecting us to be a fair user in present generation? We play 300 rupees for 200 channels and we pay 1000 rupees for what? To exhaust the limit soon and switch to mobile phones and computers, having a smart TV?
May be we can never understand what they think. Logically thinking, most of the policies that TRAI introduces seems stupid to common person. They haven't undertaken any policy that would benefit a common internet user in India if we exclude "Minimum speed limit" of 512kpbps in 2016. They want to finish digital India by 2017 but the people who could able to avail that service might still remain under 20% and the telecommunications till continue to exploit the policies of the government and TRAI and extort the consumers. Maladministration in India is spoiling the resources and cheating its citizens. telecommunication sector is prime example for that.
Do comment your views.
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